Friday, January 30, 2015

ALLIED ARAB ARMIES OOB, YOM KIPPUR WAR, OCTOBER 1973

ALLIED ARAB ARMIES OOB, YOM KIPPUR WAR, OCTOBER
1973

The Arab Nations provided considerable reinforcements to Egypt and
Syria during the 1973 War. However, the reinforcements arrived at different
times during the conflict. Lt General Shazly rates them in order of
effectiveness as follows: Iraq, Algeria, Libya, Jorda, Morocco, Saudi Arabia,
Sudan, Kuwait, Tunisa. He pays special attention to the Iraq Hunter pilots
operating on the Egyptian Front.Algeria's three squadrons of aircraft
arrived in Egypt between October the 9th - 11th, while the armoured brigade
arrived on the 17th. While Libya's forces were in Egypt prior to the war
beginning.